Question

I need to take a string that was originally read in from a text file and prepend a backslash to any and all double quotes found in the string. I tried

String myString = inputString.Replace("\"", "\\\"");

and even

String myString = "";
foreach (Char Character in inputString)
    if (Character == '"')
        myString += "\\\"";
    else
        myString += Character;

However, I still keep getting the same string back as I received (no backslashes in front of the double quotes).

In my example, one value of inputString would show up in the debugger as “div id=”loader””, and I want the resulting myString to be “div id=\”loader\”” as seen in the debugger.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can achieve my desired results?

Answer 1

You are using the += operator incorrectly.

Try this:

String myString = inputString.Replace("\"", @"\""");